I have completed a recent relocation and am in the midst of a big remodel. This remodel is taking all my time and since we have entered the quiet period of the winter months I will not have any new production available until the Spring. Please plan your projects accordingly. You can reach me anytime at sales@rgb-123.com if you would like to discuss other opportunities that might bring me out of hibernation.

Ryan O’Hara

]]>Featured Artist: Erick Dunnhttp://rgb-123.com/featured-artist-erick-dunn/
Fri, 16 Oct 2015 13:07:12 +0000http://rgb-123.com/?p=1278As always we have had the opportunity to interact with so many creative light artists. Erick Dunn was able to successfully implement our BBB based controllers in his Burning Man 2014 installation BioTron. Please take the opportunity to see the stunning visualizations that Erick has brought to life with this installation. You can find more information about this projects at Erick’s site http://biotronesis.com/.

As an avid nature freak and lover of all things unusual and bizarre from the natural world, I consider my work as a collaboration with Mother Nature herself. I believe through the use of science and technology to combine natural elements into user interactive art, I can create works that stimulate and inspire as well as foster a deeper appreciation for the nature from which these forms have been extracted.

“Sugar Cubes is a new visual technology that combines 3D modeling and mapping with addressable LEDs to bring to life a huge cubic structure onstage behind live DJs and musicians. It allows for endlessly unique, improvised performances as the music triggers wonder-inducing patterns of light and motion.”

Alex’s work has been featured at Burning Man and more recently in collaboration with many prominent musical performers. To aid in the setup and take down of the SugarCubes at temporary installation sites, we have worked closely with them to provide custom RS-485 control hardware to allow them to control their distributed cubes over CAT6 RJ-45 cable from a central control location. They have successfully taken the LEDscape code and are able to multi-cast their visualizations over multiple Beaglebone Blacks directly to the SugarCubes.

GizmodoAlex was also recently interviewed by Gizmodo where he details the extensive amount of work and creativity that it took to bring the SugarCubes Project to life.

“I was inspired by some of the audiovisual art that I had seen recently, and was dreaming up a piece that would be expressive both sculpturally and programmatically. Specifically, Amon Tobin’s ISAM installation and my good friend Mark Slee’s artwork come to mind as inspirations for the piece… I like building complex systems out of simple rules; this is what has always fascinated me about physics, math, chemistry—the universe really. The cubes are a sort of physical manifestation of a voxel (a portmanteau of “volume pixel”), so they can be used as a kind of crude 3-D screen, and many different structures can be built with cubes. Despite being such a simple polygon, there is a ton to be done with cubes.”

The Cathedrals
The SugarCubes were recently featured in The Cathedrals Video “Unbound“. The magic of the interaction between the art, music, and dancers makes for some truly amazing visual imagery!

Tim Fain

Alex writes from The SugarCubes Facebook page that they will be featured “in an upcoming documentary by PBS called Ineffable, which ponders the future of art. I feel incredibly lucky to work with violinist Tim Fain. We have an ongoing series of audiovisual collaborations– if you will be at Sundance this year, stay in touch! We’ll be doing our next public performance there together in January”.

The trailer for “Ineffable” is provided below:

]]>Featured Artist – Mads Christensenhttp://rgb-123.com/featured-artist-mads-christensen/
Mon, 01 Dec 2014 04:10:15 +0000http://rgb-123.com/?p=995Recently, we have been working closely with Mads Christensen of Blues and Gray who has used our led matrices and control hardware successfully in several of his recent projects. On a recent visit to Los Angeles I got to visit Mads’ studio and see some of his pieces first hand.

Woven II
I really like this piece. It is commonly available rgb strips that have been woven together and diffused through the application of white paint. Simplistic and pure.

What are you blinking about?
The image below only begins to describe the brilliance of this piece. This installation is an amazing outdoor piece and I only wish I could have seen it installed at Burning Man 2014 this year.

Zoom
One of Mads’ most recent pieces “Zoom” features our 48 Output Cape. The amazing framerate capability of 400 fps on 48 channels of led data makes for extremely smooth transitions and color effects and has enabled many of the amazing visualizations seen in this piece.

Well, its been nearly a year since our Kickstarter was orginally funded @ 17x of our original funding goal. Since then, we have made huge leaps and strides in our ability to control the WS2812 leds. Our biggest advance has been through the partnership and coordination with Yona Appletree.

Yona is an amazing light artist that has taken his LEDscape code and through our BeagleBone Black Capes (24 Output or 48 Output) is able to control his amazing Radiance dome and Radiance Orb.

The Radiance Dome is a free standing art installation based on a 5 frequency geodesic dome. It contains 190 illuminated panels and 120 vertex lights, which together form a highly customizable, light-driven 3d surface. Standing approximately 20’ tall and with a diameter of about 40’, the Radiance Dome is designed to be a space which captures the eye of the visitor from both inside and out.

The Radiance Orb is part of our ongoing series of interactive light installations exploring the intersection of cutting-edge lighting technology and 3d geometry. For this project, we scaled down the geodesic dome concept and made a complete sphere – while also significantly increasing the LED resolution and responsiveness to ambient sound.